“Summertime and the living is easy,” as the old song goes. Ella Fitzgerald clearly wasn’t going through a fifth heatwave and amber weather warnings when she sang this. Temperatures have reached mid-to-late 30s across the country. My strategy for remaining cool is to keep all windows and curtains closed during the day, until the temperature cools in the evening. It’s then time then to open all the windows and let all the lovely cool, sweet, air in. This is also the perfect time to spend a few hours in the garden...
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